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published: Thursday | August 17, 2006

Lead Stories


Kingfish strikes - Luxury vehicles seized in counter-narcotics operation
Eleven luxury vehicles were seized and two persons arrested yesterday during a massive international counter-narcotics operation conducted in the Corporate Area and Manchester. The vehicles include models, such as, Mercedes Benz, a Jaguar, Honda...

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Mayor says Government of Jamaica delaying Kingston restoration programme
Dell takes charge of faulty batteries
Spelling Bee champions taste success
Beacon of hope for inner-city youths
Jehovah's Witnesses' convention to begin
Score big during Cricket World Cup
Gleaner-Bill Johnson Poll - CXC gets high marks in poll
Teachers get better offer

News


Winning the big blue at Denbigh
"Heave!" The group of men shouted in unison as they grabbed on to the cow's behind and pushed with all their might. "Heave!" They pushed even harder, grimacing with the effort. But the cow still just would not budge.

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José Marti to operate as both high, technical school
Blackout report ready by next week
Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) urges Jamaicans to sign up as election workers
Remembering '51 storm: 154 persons dead - 2,000 injured - 25,000 homeless - rampant looting
Education centre aims to revive Portmore Lane
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) set to discuss Sandals Whitehouse cost overrun
Resident Magistrates shortage cripples St Catherine courts
Critical Sandals documents surrendered

Business


Get 'legal aid' - JCC slams lawmakers for slow legislative pace, again
The retailers lobby on Tuesday demanded that Parliamentary sessions be boosted to four days per week and that the private sector be tapped for expertise to help draft legislation, to help correct what it said was an ineffective legislative system.

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Inflation still a threat

Sport


Blake, Russell open medal count for Jamaica
BEIJING, China: BRONZE WAS the order of the day as Jamaica opened their medal count at the 11th IAAF World Junior Cham-pionships with two third-place finishes at the Chaoyang Sport Centre in the Chinese capital yesterday.

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Top rally drivers to square off at Frome
Jamaica to kick up a storm in Asian showdown
Jamaica keep leaders Barbados in check
T&T hammer St Lucia by 299 runs
Carl Brown back at the helm as interim coach
High-flying Ricardo Alliman set to make big jump
All Stars, Warriors in semi clash
Showdown at Medinah
Business House divisional League on
Harbour View end tour on high note

Commentary


EDITORIAL - JLP shifts stance on ties with Venezuela
However much they may attempt to spin it, Bruce Golding, the Opposition Leader, has retreated from his previous position on Jamaica's burgeoning economic relationship with Venezuela. That is decent and mature.

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'Keep us safe!' - the security imperative
After the ceasefire: winners and losers

Letters


LETTER OF THE DAY - Call for review of driver regulation system
THE EDITOR, Sir: We write in response to your editorial in the Sunday Gleaner of June 25th titled 'Clean up Island Traffic Authority'. In addition to the information listed in your editorial, the Jamaica Injury Surveillance System...

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Litany of cellular woes
Major traffic congestion
Reconstruction needed
Laughter the best medicine
Call election now, PM

Entertainment


Rising Stars gawn abroad
Jamaica is not the only country producing a rising star each year, Digicel is also exploring the talent to be found on other islands. The local success of Rising Stars has inspired the launching of the show in other countries in the Eastern Caribbean.

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MEET THE BEAUTIES: 2006 Miss Jamaica contestants
UB40 closes the show
Paris urges public to look past stereotypes
Mission for Moses at 'Summer Sizzle' launch
Sunsplash tours US

Farmer's Weekly


Sugar Enterprise Team to revamp divestment offer - Disappointing response from private investors
The special Sugar Enterprise Team (SET) managing the proposed divestment of the assets of the Sugar Company of Jamaica is to revamp its divestment offer in the face of a disappointing response from private investors.

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Workshop to better govern export of agri crops under way
St Catherine takes 'Best Pavilion' prize at Denbigh
Westmoreland retains overall parish title

What's Cooking


New Restaurant in Town - Cocoro to your heart
Cocoro, which officially opened on August 6, stretches across one of the porches of the Mayfair Hotel, situated in a quiet residential suburb of the Corporate Area. The secluded old world ambience of the hotel provides the perfect setting...

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South Florida's Jamaican Jerk Festival - hot, hot, hot!
Pizza power
Fracas, news and good news

UWI/Eye on Science


How to reduce your energy consumption
Don't forget the basics. This simple stuff will save energy — and money — right now. 1. Unplug Photovoltaic. Photovoltaics are the direct conversion of light into electricity at the atomic level.

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Photovoltaics
US scientists find gene that helped human brain evolve from apes


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